"Delaney?" a voice asked.
I looked up to see a familiar face of a Ravenclaw named Zach. He had dark brown hair with light blue eyes.
"Let me help you there." he said alluding to the fact that I had almost as many books as Hermione.
"I can handle it, thanks."
"If you can handle it, why are they about to fall."
Before I could respond my books tumbled to the ground.
"How did you know that was going to happen?" I inquired bending down to pick them up.
He just shrugged and helped me pick them up.
"Thanks."
"No problem, I was wondering something."
"Yes?"
"Do you have a date to the Yule Ball yet?"
"No, why?"
"I was wondering if you would go with me?"
"Sure."
"Okay."
We parted ways. I met up with Harry, Hermione and Neville.
"So, the Yule Ball is coming up who are you guys going with?" I said bringing up the subject.
"I haven't asked anyone." Neville and Harry said.
"It's a surprise." Hermione said.
"Who are you going with, Laney?"
"I was just asked by Zach Abrams, a Ravenclaw."
"That's nice." Harry said.
Hermione nodded in agreement with Harry but Neville didn't respond.
"Something wrong, Nev?"
"No."
"You sure?"
"Yes."
"You okay with me going to the ball with Zach?"
"Laney, don't let me stop you from talking to other guys."
"I guess that's what's bothering you."
He just shrugged.
"Are you afraid if I become close with Zach, I'll forget about you."
"Something like that." he mumbled.
"I promise we will stay close."
He just shrugged again.
"Nev, he's just my date to a silly ball, Merlin knows what will happen."
He just nodded. The day continued. I went dress shopping with Taylor who was going with Seamus. The rest of the girls were going with their respective boyfriends. It was now the day of the dance. Seamus and Zach met Taylor and I outside of our common room.
"You look great, Taylor." Seamus said.
"Thank you." she blushed.
"You look nice." Zach complimented.
"Thanks."
"Are you kidding Neville will have a hard time keeping his eyes off you." Seamus whispered.
"What was that Seamus?" I asked.
"Oh, nothing."
We walked to the Great Hall. Harry stood outside with Parvati Patil. That's a surprise.
"Hey Harry."
"Hey Delaney."
Neville walked over to us with Ginny on his arm. She's the last person I expected him to ask if he hadn't asked me first.
"Hey guys." I greeted.
"Hey Delaney."
"She looks beautiful, doesn't she?" Parvati suddenly said.
We all looked up to see the fourth person in our little quartet also known as Hermione walking down the stairs. I saw Harry's mouth drop open in surprise. I don't know why he was so surprised I've always known Hermione was beautiful since I've been to parties where we had to dress up. We both had the same philosophy on dressing up or putting on makeup it just took too much effort. The only thing I was surprised at was that she was on the arm of Bulgarian bon-bon Viktor Krum. Those were Rita Skeeter's words not mine. We all walked in. Then the champions walked in and danced first. I danced a lot with Zach. I danced a bit with Harry. I was expecting Neville to ask me to dance but he didn't. He danced with Ginny a lot though. The dance ended.
"I had a great time tonight." I said as Zach walked me back to my common room.
"I did too."
We reached the common room.
"Thanks for walking me back."
"No problem, we should hang out more."
"I would like that."
"Sounds good, bye."
I walked in my common room.
